Re: [PATCH 6/6] x86: kaslr: relocate base offset at boot

[Kees Cook]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 7:40 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 04/15/2013 07:31 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>
>> I also am starting to think that this really would be done better being
>> integrated with the decompressor code, since that code already ends up
>> moving the code around... no reason to do this again.
>>
>
> Another good reason to do this in the decompressor wrapper: it can be
> written in C that way.

This would make the code much more readable, for sure. And given that
the 64-bit relocation work happens after decompression, this seems
only right. Good idea! I'll start working on it.

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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